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The focus of Leslie Woodhead’s exemplary documentary was the people for whom JFK’s assassination was intimate fact

The Day Kennedy Died (ITV) ****

Breathless (ITV) **

The question “Where were you when Kennedy died?” dwarfs all others of its type
— where we were when Diana died or during the Moon landing — because it
acknowledges the assassination as the moment when the planet realised it had
become a global village and television was its parish pump. Although it
recalled that Radio Moscow, on hearing the news, switched to playing funeral
music, Leslie Woodhead’s typically exemplary documentary last night was not,
however, about this international phenomenon.

The focus of The Day Kennedy Died was those for whom the assassination